Steinbrenner’s fault.
I too thought the headline was referring to Babe Ruth, until I started reading the article.
In response, all I can say is, “War is hell.”
What’s done is done and can’t be undone.
Beyond that its navel gazing.
“I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here.
Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!” -—William T. Sherman, to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy (19 June 1879)
That’s OK, I got even with those D*&% Yankees.
I stole one of their luscious babes for a bride and brought her back South.
That’ll teach ‘em!
The moment the South proved a forced to be reckoned with,was when Total war became essentially inevitable.They were either going to roll over for the Federal government or they were going to drive it off.
Winning a string of battles and fighting it to a standstill is nice and all but it is going to lead to harsher and stronger measures from the opposition.
The South was a victim of its own success,while I find slavery appalling,it had better infantrymen and officers(senior and junior)then the North.
Something’s not right with the Stephen Davis’s bio. He lists a PhD, but not the school he received it from, while his graduate work at UNC seems to have been truncated with the consolation-degree of an MA. Then, of course, he appears to have been a lifelong Confederacy fan, who has worked in furthering the legacy of his preferred ‘side’.
I suspect there’s good reason his monograph hasn’t got more attention.
I think that the Yankees just ruthless enough to win.
Grant seemed to parole prisoners to the point of his disadvantage. Many of them took up arms again.
I am old enough to remember relatives , (several born in the 1800’s) that had a serious mistrust of anyone from the north. Pretty much the same today, just not as militant about it.
Law of unintended consequences....Booth killed the only sensible man, thereby uplifting Johnson to POTUS and the South was worse for wear.
Reconstruction would’ve been far less brutal if Lincoln had survived to remain POTUS, IMHO.
Yes, Yankees Were “Far Too Ruthless”
That’s why they won. Were it fought by today’s “Rules of Engagement,” the Civil War would not yet be over.